A 16-year-old teenager will be charged <\/strong>in court on Wednesday (June 24) after he allegedly attempted to evade a police roadblock and collided into two enforcement officers stationed there.<\/p>\n The police said in a statement that officers from the traffic police and Land Transport Authority (TPA) had set up a joint roadblock along Commonwealth Avenue West towards Commonwealth Avenue on March 21.<\/p>\n When he approached the roadblock, he rode at high speed on his <\/strong>unregistered vehicle <\/strong>hitting a traffic police officer and an LTA officer.<\/p>\n The 28-year-old traffic police officer sustained injuries including a head haematoma (blood clot in the skull), abrasions and hip pain.<\/p>\n The 44-year-old male LTA officer was severely hurt, suffering a brain injury, knee fracture, muscle tear and a sprained ligament.<\/p>\n Both officers and the teen rider were conscious when taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n The teen will be charged with offences including evading a police roadblock, reckless driving causing hurt and grievous hurt, and driving underage.<\/p>\n In a separate incident at the same location, a 15-year-old male teenager who was riding an unregistered Personal Mobility Device (PMD) fled after seeing the roadblock <\/strong>at about 11.25pm.<\/p>\n He mounted the pavement, abandoned the vehicle and escaped on foot together with his male pillion rider.<\/p>\n The two riders were subsequently detained by traffic police officers.<\/p>\n The 15-year-old will also be taken to court on Wednesday (June 24) and charged with evading a police roadblock, riding a PMD on a public road and riding an unregistered PMD on a footpath.<\/p>\n The police said they take a tough stance against anyone who evades roadblocks and endangers the safety of officers and members of the public.<\/p>\n “The police would also like to remind the public that PMDs are not permitted on public roads, and enforcement action will be taken against those found flouting the laws.”<\/p>\n [[nid:730736]]<\/p>\n lim.kewei@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A 16-year-old teenager will be charged in court on Wednesday (June 24) after he allegedly attempted to evade a police roadblock and collided into two…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Teen on PMD evades roadblock in separate case<\/h2>\n
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